Journal....Her cracked porcelain face in The Glass Castle.

"I was too shocked to cry..."



Throughout The Glass Castle, The Walls Family, is portrayed as dysfunction. I myself can connect to this family in a more personal way due to the fact that my family is too, dysfunctional. All my life I have been moving, trying to create a life for myself. Not making much friends, more or less becoming anti-social. this, I have gotten use to over the years. To me, this is is "normal." Only difference is, my father never gave me a star or a planet for Christmas like Jeannette Walls' dad did. Although my father is a drunken asshole and a good for nothing waste of skin, My mother is the com pleat opposite. Even compared to Jeannette's mother. If I am hungry, she will do whatever she can to feed me. Like Rose Marry, My mother is to, an artiest. But she does not put her art before the well being of her kids. My father on the other hand.. Thinks hes the big shot, and thinks that just because he is the man, that his word is law. Until I stood up to him.



"Have I ever let you down?"

"Yes"

This coming from Jeannette's brother Brian directed to their father Rex Walls. I too have said something similar to my own father. Connecting it to an emotionless memory, I was about 6 when I said it. My "father" was drunk. My mother told me to hold my tongue and blow it off, but to this day, I still hold it close in my head. Just like every time Ive watched my "father" walk out on us, or quit his job for nothing. My mother and brother raised me, Just like it's up to Lori to raise Jeannette, Brian, and their newborn Maureen. In some aspects, you can tell their father cares about them, but at the same time, he would spend their food money on alcohol.